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Navy ship's inflatable

Navy ship's inflatable not up to scratch

The rigid-hulled inflatable boat on the navy's new $177 million multi-role ship Canterbury did not meet safety standards, according to a court of inquiry into the death of a sailor in October.
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Fi it is anything like the USA your getting all of your parts from the lowest bidder. It does not surprise me that some of the parts are understandards. I do not understand why the govenments let the manufactures get by with selling them understandard parts to protect us with. Even NASA. I am not sure I would want to be strapped to a rocket and blasted into space knowing that the lowest bidder was the manufactor of this rocket.

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It's unfortunate that lessons have had to be learnt in this hard way. It seems tragic that this young man has lost his life because of a careless lack of integrity in terms of the planning and design of this new ship.

Inflatable Ships Navy

From my jobs in government I have found that someone has to be seriously hurt or killed before the ywill change the design or saftey of any type of product or vessel. I just hope they get something better.

Inflatable Ships Navy

I think the lowest and highest bids should hit the waste paper basket as soon as they are noticed. The bids in the middle are most likely the honest bids, and will produce the expected outcome.

In this case I hope the person in charge of the purchase is fined and the procedures rewrote to accommodate common sense. The manufacturer should be sued corporately and on a personal level heavy fines laid out on the designers and the person who signed off on the plans.

Yes I do think such actions are necessary to institute a change in the system from the bidding to the completed project so that those who are willing to put their lives on the line for their country know the equipment they use is safe and will do what is required.